It’s T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month’s host is Kendra Little (blog|@), and the excellent topic selected by Kendra is Interviewing Patterns & Anti-Patterns. When I logged on to Twitter this morning, the first tweet I saw was for Brent Ozar’s (@BrentO) post The DBA Job I Turned Down. It was another great post from Brent, and I was inspired to write about a similar topic. For my contribution to this T-SQL Tuesday is 3 Jobs I Didn’t Take, and

Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #88 being hosted this month by Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan (blog|@KennieNP). This month’s topic is the “daily (database-related) WTF”, and I want to share some of my top WTF moments. If you would like to participate in this month’s blog party, go to Kennie’s invitational blog post: Announcing T-SQL Tuesday #88 – The daily (database-related) WTF. You did what to your database mirroring? I was working on an operations team at Microsoft, when I got a call

Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #87 being hosted this month by Matt Gordon (blog|@sqlatspeed). This month’s topic is “Fixing Old Problems with Shiny New Toys”. The old problem I’m going to talk about is seeing what wait types are experienced by a particular query. If you would like to participate in this month’s blog party, go to Matt’s invitational blog post: Announcing T-SQL Tuesday #87 – Fixing Old Problems with Shiny New Toys. Why is my query waiting? SQL Server 2005

Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #85 being hosted this month by Kenneth Fisher (blog|@SQLStudent144). This month’s topic is “Backup and Recovery”. This is one of my favorite topics, so the hard part was narrowing down what I want to cover .. as you can probably tell by me doing a second post for this month. I call this one T-SQL Tuesday #85 Part Deux. If you would like to participate in this month’s blog party, go to Kenneth’s invitational blog post:

Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #85 being hosted this month by Kenneth Fisher (blog|@SQLStudent144). This month’s topic is “Backup and Recovery”. This is one of my favorite topics, so the hard part was narrowing down what I want to cover. If you would like to participate in this month’s blog party, go to Kenneth’s invitational blog post: T-SQL Tuesday #85: Backup and Recovery. NoRecovery Many of you already familiar with the NORECOVERY option for performing restores to allow you to continue

Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #83 being hosted this month by Andy Mallon (blog|@AMTwo). This month’s topic is “We’re still dealing with the same problems”. If you would like to participate in this month’s blog party, go to Andy’s announcing blog post: T-SQL Tuesday #83: We’re still dealing with the same problems. For my part of this blog party, I want to talk about CAP_CPU_PERCENT for Resource Governor. This feature was added to Resource Governor in SQL Server 2012, and Books

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month’s host is fellow Certified Master and Data Platform MVP Jason Brimhall (Blog|@sqlrnnr). Jason has challenged us to spend some time sharpening a skill and then blog about it. For my participation, I found myself needing to get reacquainted with a third-party backup software that I had not used in many years, LiteSpeed for SQL Server by Dell. I worked with LiteSpeed extensively many years ago when I was a DBA at

It’s time for another round of the global blog party we call T-SQL Tuesday. This is T-SQL Tuesday #80 and happens to fall on the hosts birthday. First order of business is to wish our host, Chris Yates (blog|@YatesSQL), a very happy birthday! The next order of business is to hand out presents. As per Chris’s request, my present is for myself and for the community at large. For my contribution to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, I am going to

Thanks to everybody that participated in this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. A big thanks to everyone who wrote a participating blog post, and a really huge thanks to everyone who read the posts shared by this month’s participants. If you follow one of the links on this round-up page, I will kindly ask that you leave a comment on a blog post that you read if it teaches you something, gives you a new perspective, or makes you think. A blog

Welcome to my contribution for T-SQL Tuesday 74 being hosted by me. So special thanks to me for hosting it. Good job me, I’ll buy me a beer next time I see me to thank me properly. But enough about me, my post is about using Query Store in SQL Server 2016 to identify queries or plans that have changed. Visit the blog party page to take part in this month’s T-SQL Tuesday event or to read other blog posts